The Maltese Falcon

dashiell hammett

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?

Genres mysteryfictionclassicscrimenoirdetectivemystery thrillerthrilleraudiobookbook club

213 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1930

Literary awards

anthony award, audie award, grammy award,

Places

san francisco california, california,

This edition

Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Published: March 1, 2005 by Orion
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Language: English

Characters More characters

Casper Gutman

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Effie Perine

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Brigid Oshaughnessy

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Joel Cairo

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Sam Spade

Sam Spade, is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a Teflon cat. -Stephen Sullivan, 2011Sam Spade is the protagonist in Dashiell Hammetts novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) and the various films an...

About the author

dashiell hammett

Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett

Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934).

Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) among the enduring characters. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell...